Ikkyvicky

rapist dont change their ways. no one tries to brutally rape their girlfriend gets away with it and becomes a better person.

They say this about every female lead who so much as interacts with a man who isn’t the male lead. You’d think she was out clubbing or on some candlelit dinner date, when in reality she’s literally just… working. Having a conversation. Existing in the same space as another man.
The reaction is so disproportionate that it’s almost absurd. Any interaction gets twisted into something scandalous, while the actual context of the scene is completely ignored.

Believe it or not, this used to be a space where people could have thoughtful, nuanced conversations about the characters and the storyline. Now it feels overrun by people who filter every single scene through a rigid, gender-war lens.

For some reason, everything has to be black and white. There’s no room for flawed characters, moral gray areas, or layered storytelling. They expect everyone to react to every wrongdoing on screen with the exact same level of outrage, as if all offenses exist on the same moral plane.

I’m sorry, but I’m never going to respond to cheating the same way I respond to human trafficking or rape. That doesn’t mean I condone cheating. It means I understand that there are degrees of harm. When I just watched them essentially kill a teenage victim of sexual assault, I’m not going to center my outrage on an affair. Especially in light of real-world scandals involving trafficking and exploitation, the comparison feels even more jarring.

Some viewers are writing intense think pieces after only one or two episodes, making sweeping judgments about characters before the story has even unfolded. It’s bizarre. Complex stories require patience and critical thinking not snap reactions and moral absolutism.

I hate in movies when they hit the evil person in the head once and run. Please keep hitting them until we are sure they are died. Now we got a human trafficker on our hands 😤

so you would rather your loved ones be murdered than cheated on?? I would rather be cheated on a thousand times than to even face attempted murder let along killed. Cheating is not in even the same world as murder and rape.

Oh wow, these girls really have an enemy waiting at every corner.

Like I said before, the power imbalance is massive. I genuinely don’t know how they’re supposed to take down such a powerful organization while also covering up their own attempted murder. Honestly… they should have finished him off. Now we know he’s using the prosecutor’s office as a front to traffic young women to wealthy men. That revelation was so disturbing. It’s chilling to think someone can be involved in trafficking minors and then go home to their own children and act like a loving parent, as if they’re not destroying other families’ lives.

And now the female lead is pregnant. I’ve been trying to piece together the timeline, but we’ll probably have to wait for the hospital visit to find out how far along she is. The way she reacted made it seem like the father might be her husband. Either way, he’s bound to find out eventually, and when he does, he’ll likely demand to know who the father is.

In so many Korean dramas, when the husband cheats, the wife almost always forgives him. I once watched one where the wife literally got on her knees and begged the mistress to leave her husband for the sake of their children. So if her husband ends up forgiving her… well, I guess that’s their business.

no I agree completely. I just hated to see how that horrible company pushed a mother to almost take her life. It was a great episode but the girls have gone through enough. Everything from physical to sexual to financial abuse. They deserve a little happiness. can’t wait to see how the story develops now that everything is out in the open.

I know some people think the SML is strongly written, but I completely disagree. To me, he comes across as very one-dimensional. It would have been far more compelling if we had been given real insight into his internal struggle as the son of a concubine. Instead, we’re told he suffers, yet he still enjoys a higher status than 90 percent of the population. He holds a powerful position while we watch orphans and villagers starving. Against that backdrop, his constant “woe is me” anger and bullying behavior just isn’t compelling.

He’s also willing to carry out almost anything his father orders, including burning women and children alive, which makes him more disturbing than sympathetic. It often feels like the audience is supposed to pity him, but the story never gives us a convincing reason to do so. Ironically, his brother evokes far more emotion in a single scene, when he puts on his father’s clothing and asks him to place the hat on his head, than the SML does throughout the entire narrative. The brother feels like a child desperate to please his father, and you can sense that his need for approval is steering him toward a tragic end.

I would have loved to see the ML actively push back against his role, if not physically, then at least verbally challenging his father. That kind of resistance would have added depth and tension. I appreciate a well-written morally gray character, but the SML feels stuck in limbo, not fully a villain, yet nowhere near a hero. He seems to drift through the story without clear purpose. As a result, I feel nothing for him except mild annoyance, so whether he lives or dies in the end makes no real difference to me.

today’s episode was really good but too depressing. Please go back to the humor my girls can’t handle any more sadness. Everyone was making me so sad. I’m so glad they found out about her identity. I hope she tells Albert and the rest of her team now that she’s back to her old job. How did the chairman even make it this far when all he does is embezzle? He doesn’t even care about his most loyal employees. Not to mention even his own son. Loke you are already so old how much money can you possibly need?

Sometimes I genuinely wonder if you watched tv shows with your brain turned off.
In the first episode alone, we literally see her working as a delivery driver and stopping to buy groceries. During dinner, her sister points out that she picked up extra shifts and says she can always tell because she gets extra cheerful when she’s working more. At that point, she’s still a student. Her sister even asks, “Why are you working so hard? You have an older sister to rely on.”
Within the first six minutes, the show makes it clear: she’s a hard worker who tries to handle everything on her own.
What kind of “parasite” works delivery jobs while attending school and buys groceries on the way home? What parasite insists on paying for a family dinner? What parasite tries to spend her savings on a wedding gift for her sister while she’s still just a student?
Neither sister was reckless with money. The fact that they didn’t buy things unless they truly wanted to shows how disciplined they were financially. That’s exactly why she wanted to get her sister the gift she actually liked.
After the three-year time skip, she had a job. When she lost it, she was devastated, which is the complete opposite reaction of someone who’s freeloading. And she wasn’t even living with her sister. So when exactly was she mooching? Name a single scene with her sister that indicated that she’s a lazy bum that lives off her sister?
The last argument before her sister died was the older sister telling her to stop working so hard. She said she was doing well in life now and that her younger sister could lean on her. She warned her that she’d burn out if she kept going like that. Is that the kind of conversation you have with someone who’s living off you?
Her sister literally said, “Come home. This time, I’ll support you properly.” That line alone shows the younger sister had been carrying her own weight and then some.
The female lead felt guilty because she thought her sister couldn’t live freely, not because she was lazy, but because she was constantly worrying about her. That’s why she hid losing her job. At no point do we see her sitting around while her sister works herself to exhaustion to support her.
So either you skipped episode one, or you’re deliberately ignoring what it showed.
As for the male lead, he agreed to take on the responsibility for one month because he’s currently on parental leave. His boss gave him that time off. He offered to help with the child temporarily while she got settled at work in exchange for housing and storage. That’s a mutual arrangement, not exploitation.
You can accuse her of flirting if you want, but calling her a parasite makes no sense. We consistently see her working, even staying up late to finish projects, and she’s only an intern. The day she was supposed to come home early, she fully intended to. She kept him updated the entire day until her boss asked her to stay late. Even in that room, she was working, with some light flirting mixed in.
She didn’t see her phone during the hospital situation, but she did communicate that she wouldn’t make it home on time. Even her co-workers told her to work less because she’s making them look bad. Is the ML at this current moment taking on more with the kid. Of course and that’s the point of the one month agreement. He didn’t take parental leave for nothing.
At this point, it feels like you just love labels. For you, everyone has to be either good or bad. Everything has to fit into a neat box. But this story and these characters are more nuanced than that. You are trying to erase the entire plot just cause you hate the fact that on occasion she revisits the past with her old fling.

I don’t understand how a single person lightly flirting makes them a parasite? Both of them are decent people doing the best they can in light of their circumstances. Raising a child is not easy and they are gonna make mistakes.

I have so many questions. If the cure was in his blood, why did he need to kill all those people? In the second episode, he mentioned having to get it “just right” was he referring to isolating the cells? I’m also really curious about what happened to the missing notebook. And what exactly is wrong with the ML?
The way he was laughing at the end made me feel like he either got away with something or managed to fool everyone. I felt so bad for the lawyer, it must be incredibly difficult to go against your long-held principles for even a small chance at saving your dying daughter.
I enjoyed the FL much more in this episode. And I loved watching the teacher and student go toe to toe, their dynamic was especially compelling.

okay both are adults. As long as an actor can pull a role off they can play any characters they want. it is called acting for a reason.

Who said it was okay for her to cheat or that it was okay for her to lie? What people are saying is that they are not choosing to fixate on it because it’s not the main PLOT of the story but just a mere subplot. It is insane to demand accountability in just two episodes because that’s not how the story works. Sometimes cheaters get caught and sometimes they don’t. It’s just the reality of the world.

They are gonna take lots of L’s for sure. Hopefully now that they know the guy that they thought they killed is still alive they don’t have to be as nervous about their past. They should also come clean to the FL’s police officer’s husband cause he seems to be very observant anyways. it’s only a matter of time before he puts all that information together.

They only accounted for an actual killer coming in to finish the job. They never anticipated that the killer would hire an employee to threatened her. The problem is that they keep promising to keep everyone safe when in reality they don’t even know where the threat is coming from. They are going after an incredibly powerful organization that has people of all sectors working for them. The most the FL’s can do is investigate, take it to court. While the other side has an entire clean up crews. There’s a massive power imbalance. This would be an excellent case for the crew from taxi driver.

Getting caught cheating or hiding your cheating is always used as a method of tension and suspense in most movies & shows. It’s one thing for your husband to find out you are cheating but its a whole other story when it would be part of a public investigation. Famous attorney cheating on her police officer husband and the man she cheated with ends up murdered. Not to mention the possibility of her DNA being tied to what appears to be a previous crime. The possibility of getting caught cheating, it becoming public, the possibility of losing her career, perhaps she even suspected in the murder, she loses her marriage. I think the stakes are high enough for all that suspense and tension. Not to mention she was not actually moving like a lawyer when she found the body.

I think that might be your own personal interpretation tbh. In fact most of us thought it was just the kiss until she admitted to sleeping with him. The only thought I had was that she allowed her past relationship to impact her decision making and after that she had to do what cheaters always do. Lie, cover their foot steps etc…. not to mention she was panicked and do so sloppily. It’s for sure normal for people to want the spouse to find out about what their partner is doing behind their backs. It’s insane to demand that immediately though.

Oh that poor girl I had the feeling that she was gonna be killed and they used her sister to threaten her. As for the FL’s I’m so curious to find out what happened in 2005 that involves one of their DNA’s already being part of the system. Did they kill someone?? Now I’m curious about the prosecutor. He wanted the husband to know it was his wife that was there that night and he will probably eventually figure out the dna was switched. How much does the prosecutor know? it’s clear that the app people have their hands in every sector so even if that phone everyone is so obsessed over in the comments would have likely disappeared. All in all the story is getting interesting and I can’t wait to see everyone’s back story.

The summary above literally tells you that each one suffers from something different and some of them are even hiding from their past. You are the one that assumed that they would be presented as morally prestine. The audience watched a girl get beaten with a bat forgive us if we are not trying to hang the FL for cheating.